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August 2012

Helping Students Graduate: One Community at a Time

At AT&T, we’re all about raising the bar. In education, that means being part of a national movement to set big goals for improving student success. It’s an effort that starts locally, at the school around the corner or the community center down the street.

Clorox Employees Send Socially Responsible Message to GLBT Teens

The It Gets Better campaign was created to send a word of optimism to young people coming to terms with being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT). It has attracted 531,331 pledges from people committed to spreading the word against homophobia at school and at work.

The Dirty Dozen: Which Foods to Buy Organic

Nothing evokes summer more than fresh food: succulent red tomatoes, sweet corn slathered with butter, vegetables roasting on the grill. Gardens reconnect us to what we eat. Still, most people shop at the supermarket at least some of the time, where we’re confronted with this question: to buy organic or not?

We all produce heat. In winter we need more, summer, we want the opposite. Every day in all seasons, facilities managers work to ensure those who inhabit their office, condos and shopping centres are comfortable. Making us comfortable takes a whole lot of energy-and with that the price of a large carbon footprint.

"Fenix Energy has pioneered a new approach to installing renewable energy in urban centres that shaves months off new construction timelines." says a Vancouver-based cleantech firm.

World Environment Center Counts Down to Gold Medal Award; Jerusalem Residents Receive $230K for Social Innovation; Harvard Business School Hosts CSR Program - CSR Minute for August 27, 2012

Summary

The CSR Minute is your daily video digest of the most relevant Corporate Social Responsibility news of the day. Our team of 3BL Media correspondents tracks the global world of corporate social responsibility to bring you coverage of the most important announcements, initiatives, issues, trends, ideas, and breaking news.

The CSR Minute is your daily video digest of the most relevant Corporate Social Responsibility news of the day. Our team of 3BL Media correspondents tracks the global world of corporate social responsibility to bring you coverage of the most important announcements, initiatives, issues, trends, ideas, and breaking news.

CABOT, Vt., Aug. 27, 2012 / 3BL Media / PRNewswire/ -- Cabot Creamery is the first dairy cooperative to achieve B Corporation Certification, a validation of its attention to environmental and social impacts on stakeholders. Cabot joins a growing legion of successful cooperatives, fellow Northeast organizations and forward-thinking national brands that have been cer

Eye on the Prize: Building the Next Generation of Savvy Investors, One Girl at a Time

There is a clear need to educate women in the realm of financial literacy. A recent white paper commissioned by the ING Retirement Research Institute found that women on average are significantly less prepared for retirement than men. "[A]t all ages, women have saved significantly less than men," according to the report. "Younger women have saved just two thirds of men at the same age, and women age 65-69, in those critical pre-retirement years, have still saved just 78% of men the same age."[1]

Social Innovation: The Legacy of the London 2012 Sustainable Games

With the Paralympics Games set to start on 29 August 2012, it is now widely recognised by many sustainability social innovation practitioners that London did deliver a sustainable 2012 Olympic games. It has left a long-term legacy that will pass to future event organisers and suppliers: a pack of new standards and best practices in sustainable event management, construction and sourcing.

Summary

The CSR Minute is your daily video digest of the most relevant Corporate Social Responsibility news of the day. Our team of 3BL Media correspondents tracks the global world of corporate social responsibility to bring you coverage of the most important announcements, initiatives, issues, trends, ideas, and breaking news.

The CSR Minute is your daily video digest of the most relevant Corporate Social Responsibility news of the day. Our team of 3BL Media correspondents tracks the global world of corporate social responsibility to bring you coverage of the most important announcements, initiatives, issues, trends, ideas, and breaking news.